Auto-ID Lab ADELAIDE (RFID Automation)

1. Auto-ID Lab ADELAIDE(RFID Automation) Alfio Grasso Deputy Director Auto-ID Lab Adelaide General Manager RFID Automation

2. RFID Expertise • Auto ID Lab (8) • Director of Laboratory (1) • Deputy Director (1) • Post Doctoral Engineer (1) • PhD Candidates (3) • Masters Candidate (2) • Millions of tags sold throughout the world • Commercialisation experience

3. Peter Cole - Director • Prof Peter Cole • First RFID patents back to 1968 • Established TABTEK Electronics (1980) • Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) devices • Established Integrated Silicon Design (1984) • Microwave Back-scatter Technology (MBS) • Sold to Gemplus in 1999 • Established Transponder Australia (1985) • Passive sub-harmonic transponder • RFID Chair established (2001) • Auto ID Lab, Adelaide established (2002) • Acknowledged World Leader in RFID • Patents in RFID (32 - granted)

4. Alfio Grasso – Deputy Director • Alfio Grasso • 26 years experience in RFID (SAW and MBS) • Project Editor ISO 18000-6 • Engineering Manager (RFID systems) • 13.56MHz, 27 MHz, 433MHz, UHF, and 2.45 GHz • RFID Installations in various industries • Electronic Toll Collection • Mining • Sugar • Rail • Vehicle access • Library • Manufacturing • Consultant to EPCglobal Australia

5. Post Graduates & Researchers • Behnam Jamali (Post Doctoral Engineer) • Low power analogue CMOS circuits and efficient rectifiers. • Data Logging Readers • Kin Seong Leong (PhD Candidate) • Dense Reader Analysis • Dual Frequency Antennas • Mun LengNg (PhD Candidate) • Metallic Item Identification • Raja Ghosal (PhD Candidate) • Damith Ranasinghe (Masters Candidate) • Electromagnetic coupling, encryption, and authentication • Manfred Jantscher (Overseas Masters Candidate)

6. Adelaide, Auto-ID Lab

7. Three entities • Auto-ID Lab • EPCglobal research • via sub-award from MIT • RFID Automation • Contract Research • Australasian Adoption Research Initiative • RFID adoption, Networking, Resources

8. Adelaide, Auto-ID Lab

9. Background • Established in 2002 by the Auto-ID Center, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) • Now partially funded by EPCglobal Inc, via MIT

10. One of 7 AutoID Labs around the world • MIT, USA • Cambridge, UK • Adelaide, Australia • Keio, Japan • Fudan, China • St Gallen, Switzerland • ICU, Korea

11. Research Projects • The design of cost effective and small footprint tag antennas, suitable for attachment onto metal surfaces. • Interference studies in high density reader environments. • Electromagnetic propagation studies applicable to European Regulations • High security authentication tags • Dual frequency tags, ones that employ UHF techniques for supply chain applications and then HF for item management applications. • Passive RFID chip design (modules for implementation) • Analysis and measurement of new forms of reader to tag signalling

12. Research Projects Cont • Analysis of measuring equipment, i.e. understanding the test regulations with respect to the forms of signalling employed by RFID readers • Analysis and development of reader architectures • Autonomously networking tags (Class IV) • Trigger circuits for battery assisted tags. • An analysis of noise sources in RFID readers • Universal Class 2 tags • Filters that may be required to reduce spurious emissions (Japan and Australia) • The use of LF RFID in applications where HF and UHF may not provide an adequate RFID solution, such as in granular media. • Merged EAS and RFID tag

13. RFID Automation(Contract Research)

14. RFID Automation • RFID Automation • Web page www.rfidautomation.org • Established to source Research projects for the Auto ID Lab • To-date • Three consultancies • One Research Contract

15. Research Services • IT system development • Real time decisions from real time data • Zero Human Involvement Operations (OHIO) • Development of knowledge based systems that learn management expertise • Specialised Label Design • Tags placed on or near metal • Compact label design • 3D antenna structures

16. Contract Research • Separate from the EPCglobal funded work • Commercial Infrastructure • Adelaide Research & Innovation Pty Ltd • Intellectual Property Protection

17. Australasian Adoption Research Initiative

18. Australasian Adoption Research Initiative • Established in April 2005 • Mechanism for the Auto-ID Lab, Adelaide to conduct research into RFID that is relevant to Australian and New Zealand industry. • Foster adoption of the RFID technology being developed by EPCglobal. • Enables participation by companies across a broad range of industries and applications, to network and gain access to the wealth of expertise and experience in RFID. • Act as Industry Reference Group for the adoption of RFID including consultation and advice to SMEs and Governments.

19. Benefits of membership • Opportunity to input into the direction of research programs • Access to hosted visits at the Labs • Invitations to industry networking meetings designed to • keep you informed of key technical and management issues and industry developments • enable you to meet your peers in an informal setting (usually over dinner at a university site) to facilitate business relationships • Access to technology advances through regular activity reports issued by the Lab • Receive notices of specialist RFID related seminars • Receive periodic reports on EPCglobal’s HAG and SAG action groups • Priority access to personnel at Auto ID Labs Adelaide as well as access to extensive test equipment on agreed basis • Ability to access information on RFID vendors and solution providers and have the ability to check their compliance statements • Customised meetings – arrange presentations seminars and laboratory visits for members in response to requests for university research contacts

20. Why RFID expertise is needed • Installing RFID is a black art • Lack of skilled RFID technicians • Existing IT infrastructures need to be upgraded • Integrating RFID with back end systems will take months • RFID systems may require changes to non RFID friendly assets • Business processes need to be changed Source: RFID Journal

21. Further Information Alfio Grasso Deputy Director Auto-ID Lab, Adelaide General Manager RFID Automation University of Adelaide Web: www.rfidautomation.org Email : alf@rfidautomation.org Ph: (08) 8303 6473 Mob: 0402 037 968

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